ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS w/NNER & POSTER Nr MINT
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25
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£ 25
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May 11, 2015
Sold Date
May 1, 2015
Start Date
£ 20
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Great Britain
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ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS w/NNER & POSTER Nr MINT
ROGER WATERSRadio KAOS
UK EMI (KAOS 1) FIRST PRESSING (June 1987)
ONCE PLAYED AND AS-NEW
MATRIX: KAOS 1 A-1U-1-2-3 TOWNHOUSE DMM / KAOS 1 B-1U-1-2 -2
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SLEEVE "Sleeve printed in England""Manufactured in England" WITH FRONT STICKER
ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE AND LARGE SIX PANEL MAP/POSTER PRINTED ON ONE SIDE OF GLOSSY PAPER
Storyline:
The concept is based around a 23-year-old disabled man from Wales named Billy.
Billy uses a wheelchair and is thought to be mentally a vegetable. However, Billy is highly intelligent but has no way of expressing himself.
Billy has a twin brother Benny who is a coal miner. Billy lives with Benny, Benny's wife Molly, and their children.
Unfortunately, Benny has lost his job in the mines due to the "market forces".
One night, Benny and Billy are out on a pub crawl when they pass a shop full of TV screens broadcasting Margaret Thatcher's "mocking condescension".
Benny vents his anger on this shop and steals a cordless phone.
Next, in theatrical fashion, Benny poses on a footbridge in protest to the closures; the same night, a taxi driver is killed by a concrete block dropped from a similar bridge ("Who Needs Information”).
The police question Benny, who hides the phone in Billy's wheelchair. Benny is taken to prison, and Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to live with his uncle David in L.A..
Billy is gifted and can hear radio waves in his head ("Radio Waves"), so he begins to explore the cordless phone, recognising its similarity to a radio.
He experiments with the phone and is able to access computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak through them.
He calls a radio station in L.A. named Radio K.A.O.S. and tells them of his life story about his brother being in jail ("Me or Him"), about his sister-in-law not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave ("Sunset Strip"), and about the closures of the mines ("Powers that Be").
Billy eventually hacks in to a military satellite and fools the world in to thinking nuclear ICBMs are about to be detonated at major cities all over the world whilst deactivating the military's power to retaliate ("Home" and "Four Minutes").
The album concludes with a song about how everyone, in thinking they were about to die, realises that the fear and competitiveness peddled by the mass media is much less important than their love for family and the larger community. ("The Tide is Turning").
The album is dedicated "to all those who find themselves at the violent end of monetarism."
Side A:
Radio Waves
Who Needs Information
Me Or Him
The Powers That Be
Side B:
Sunset Strip
Home
Four Minutes
The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)
LABELS: NEAR MINT/MINT
An immaculate set of labels - one light spindle on one side, none on the other
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new - some harmless brush marks are visible from the inner (or more likely from manufacture)
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays as-new - an occasional tick noted but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: MINT
As crisp, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Again, pristine
POSTER: MINT
Unopened before my photographs
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
I will combine postage for items purchased within any 10 day period.
However, at the end of each 10 day period, all outstanding items will need to be paid for in full and will be posted to you.
Any items purchased after payment will be included in the next 10 period.
I am continually adding new items which may be of interest to you and it is impractical for me to allow payment to be postponed indefinitely in the expectation that you might wish to bid on future items. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 606 (GS 6.9.3 (606))
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